Summary information

Study title

Elementary School and Advertising (Principals)

Creator

Feil, Christine (Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI), München)

Study number / PID

ZA2862, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2862 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Infrastructure and surroundings of the elementary school as well as meal selections and the school´s dealing with visits of salesmen. Sponsoring in school. Topics: state; number of classes of the 1st and 4th grades as well as respective number of schoolchildren; participation of the school in any kind of experiments; number of female and male home-room teachers of the 1st to 4th grade; additional occupation as home-room teacher; accomodation of the elementary school together with other school forms; school offerings; school supporters; number of residents; business structure, structure of the residential area and infrastructure in the school district; composition of the elementary schoolchildren regarding their financial backgrounds; courses leading to transfer to high school in the last year of school; proportion of foreign schoolchildren; frequency of use of instruction methods; meal offerings for schoolchildren such as recess sales, vending machines, school milk and lunch; snacks available from bakery and kiosk in the immediate vicinity of the school; importance of treating the topic of advertising in the elementary school; necessity of the development of newer instruction materials for the elementary school on the topic of advertising and reasons for this; sponsoring at the school; handling of making public the contributors of larger amounts of money or materials; active effort to obtain contributions; support organization at the elementary school and most important tasks for a support organization (scale); estimated financial value for money or material contributions received in the last year of school; personal behavior with visits by salesmen and with advertising material as well as advertising gifts for teachers and schoolchildren by means of selected statements (scale); general prohibition of contacts with schoolchildren or personal responsibility of the teacher in dealing with advertising gifts; personal effort for the use of offerings of public...
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Methodology

Data collection period

03/1995 - 07/1995

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random
sample of principals of 200 elementary schools in Bavaria and 150 schools in Brandenburg

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Mail survey

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1997

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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